read Al Filreis on canto 8 of “Song of Myself”
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
Category: week 1
New poem & video: Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—”
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
Al’s update on Friday of week 1 (ModPo 2019)
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
live webcast, week 1 – September 11, 2019 at 3 PM
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 11) is webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our first weekly ModPo webcast of 2019....
Day 1 of week 1, ModPo 2019 — Al’s announcement
Week 1 of ModPo officially starts today. Here is the week 1 syllabus: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/home/week/1 Week 1 consists of a few poems by Emily Dickinson and sections (or “cantos”) from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”...
ModPo has begun today — Al’s announcement
ModPo 2019 has begun. It’s good to see, already, a number of lively, generous introductions. You can read them HERE. And please, while you’re there, post an introduction to yourself! I recommend that you...
ModPo 2019 opening day message from Al
It’s Friday morning as I write this here in Philadelphia USA. Twenty-four hours from now we will begin our 10-week journey through the ModPo course. Whether you are able to devote just two hours...
Montreal meet-up discusses Dickinson’s “The Soul unto itself”
During our visit to Montreal in October 2018, we convened a meet-up which was attended by a wonderful group of Canadian ModPo’ers. One of the poems we discussed that night was Dickinson’s “The Soul...
Watch the live video stream of “Five Up on Walt”: celebrate Whitman at 200
This event, which is being hosted by Anna Strong Safford, will be live streamed (as all our programs are) here: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/ *** We’re excited to invite you to the Writers House on Tuesday, February...
Artist Maria Markovich makes an Emily Dickinson sculpture
The artist Maria Markovich has participated in ModPo for a number of years. In 2015 she created the Emily Dickinson figure photographed below.